My next door neighbour adopted a green cheeked conure from the humane society, and I went down with her to pick it up (and looked at the dogs; there were no candidates). What a beautiful bird! And already very social; even being in an unfamiliar place with the dogs barking and a couple of strange people she (or he; we don't know which), was grooming its feathers and chirping at us. When I leaned in close to the cage, it came right over to get a closer look, and when I left, there were some chuckling prrts as I walked away.